Senior Medical Support - Elderly Care Partners
A while ago, most people who had suffered an accident and became paralyzed, had a heart stroke, suffered a fall and broke a hip, had no choice but to go to a nursing home or stay in a hospital for an extended amount of time. The situation today is skewed and many people have an alternative - that being hiring home health aides to look after them in their own homes at their comfort levels.
Home health care is no doubt less expensive compared to the intensive care and research studies have shown that many of the patient's rate of recovery is more rapid at their homes than in nursing homes. For the most part, the at-home assistant's role would be contributing a service which a nurse does in a hospital - assisting with prescription medicine, checking pulse, change dressings, checking temperature and breathing and helping out with the braces or artificial limbs. People such as these move ahead in helping out in ways that a normal nurse in a hospital might not do, like exercising with the patients, picking up around the house, running errands and cooking meals and when the parents are sick or disabled, these caregivers also look after their children.
QuietCare functions as a 24 hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week early detection and early warning system that lets caregivers and family members know that a loved one is safe. It recognizes emerging problems before they become emergencies.
The system utilizes small, unobtrusive, strategically-placed wireless sensors to monitor the senior in their own home. It is virtually invisible. No video camera or audio intrudes on the seniors' lives.
Small, wireless motion sensors are strategically placed in key areas, including the senior's bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and meal prep and/or medication areas.
Each sensor transmits information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week about the senior's daily living activities to a book-sized base station.
The base station gathers this information and regularly transmits it to QuietCare's computers, using existing telephone lines.
Changes in the senior's activities are analyzed so caregivers can be alerted to problems by call center professionals, or via e-mail, cell phone, text message or pager, or by checking a password-protected web site.